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Search for the Right CMS
Category: MemphisWow … what a battle.
We’ve been looking at dozens of CMS, trying to find the one with a usable set of feature to achieve a new portal. It has certainly been an interesting and frustrating journey so far. Hopes are high that the latest one we are looking at will have the feature sets we are after.
Wordpress which drives this site is a good even a great blog and with some of the themes and extensions out there makes a fairly decent CMS as well. The main issues are that it doesn’t natively handle multiple sites and we’d like to be able to admin all sites from a single interface. A lot of the CMS that claim to have multisite support really mean that you can have multiple sites from a single code base install. Technically they are correct, however when you are looking at having a single interface to drive the lot it doesn’t meet the criteria.
A lot of the very active and popular CMS out there are difficult to use, administer, update and maintain. There are some that look truly promising, only to fall down on necessary criteria like Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. Exponent is one to look for as it gets closer to a 1.0 release.
We are about to run up and have a look at Xaraya, which looks to have most if not all of what we want.
Stay tuned for updates.
Warm Regards,
Shane
